Advanced Vocabulary Study List

A collection of vocabulary flashcards covering advanced terms and their exact definitions based on the lecture notes.

MALICE

A desire to harm others or see them suffer.

WAN

Pale and weak-looking, often from illness or fatigue.

BLATANT

Very obvious in an offensive or shameless way.

DETER

To stop someone from doing something by fear, doubt, or warning.

CONCUR

To have the same opinion or agree with a decision.

CREDULOUS

Too ready to believe something without enough evidence.

ARDOR

Intense eagerness or strong feeling.

OSTRACIZE

To expel from a community or group.

MENDICANT

A person who lives by asking others for money or food.

HAUGHTY

Acting superior and showing contempt for others.

ZENITH

The point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected.

PERNICIOUS

Exceedingly harmful.

TACITURN

Habitually reserved and uncommunicative.

ABJURE

To formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure.

SOMNOLENT

Inclined to or marked by drowsiness.

INDEFATIGABLE

Showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality.

AVARICE

Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins).

FOIBLE

A behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual.

APLOMB

Great coolness and composure under strain.

ABSCOND

To run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along.

CLANDESTINE

Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.

PLETHORA

Extreme excess.

PROCLIVITY

A natural inclination.

QUANDARY

A situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one.

FASTIDIOUS

Giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness.

GARRULOUS

Full of trivial conversation.

SARDONIC

Disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking.

BILK

To cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money.

SCRUPULOUS

Having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled.

INTRANSIGENT

Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason.

SPECIOUS

Plausible but false.

TURPITUDE

A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice.

PRECOCIOUS

Characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude).

PAUCITY

An insufficient quantity or number.

DELETERIOUS

Harmful to living things.

DIATRIBE

Thunderous verbal attack.

FORBEARANCE

Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence.

SUPERFLUOUS

Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.

HUBRIS

Overbearing pride or presumption.

EXTRANEOUS

Not pertinent to the matter under consideration.

DILETTANTE

An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge.

TEMERITY

Fearless daring.

ONEROUS

Not easily borne; wearing.

REDOUBTABLE

Inspiring fear.

ABSTRUSE

Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge.

OBSEQUIOUS

Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.

TACIT

Understood without being stated directly.